Tag Archives: Criminal

Defendant is not entitled to reversal of his conviction for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon on grounds of unlawful seizure, the Court of Appeals says; defendant’s repeatedly putting his hands in pockets in the totality of circumstances ...

A defendant who illegally and feloniously purchased methadone, poured it in a medicine cup and left the cup unattended on the kitchen counter where her three-year-old son found it in the same cup he had used to take cold medicine, ...

Although defendant says she did not intend to defraud two merchants – a consignment shop that gave her rugs on approval in exchange for her personal check and an eyewear shop that provided eyeglasses and extra lenses – when she ...

On remand for defendant’s resentencing on cocaine distribution convictions, the trial court erred by reading a Statement of Facts to the resentencing jury, including a description of a conversation relating to a drug transaction for which defendant was not charged; ...

ROANOKE – Lawyers who ignore the General Assembly should not complain about the new batch of tough-on-crime laws limiting judges’ discretion and creating backlogs in traffic court. That’s one legislator’s reaction to complaints from courthouse lawyers about the 2012 General ...

A man who terrorized a former high-school girlfriend for more than three decades, and who served time in prison for killing her mother and a friend and wounding a neighbor as the woman fled her West Virginia home in 1975, ...

After twice vacating and remanding defendant’s sentencing enhancement on his conviction of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, the 4th Circuit on the third go-round upholds defendant’s 180-month sentence, including the federal guidelines’ enhancement for the “federal crime of ...

Pro athletes make lots of money. Their lives are glamorous, if you read the tabloids. But superstars’ lives can be pretty messy, as messy as the lives of the mere mortals who are their fans. And sometimes those messes turn ...

The Court of Appeals affirms defendant’s jury trial convictions for robbery, abduction for pecuniary benefit, using a firearm to commit a felony and violent offender possession of a firearm; double jeopardy does not apply to crimes with different victims and ...